Ship sank 150 years ago with crores of gold man stole from it jailed ss central america

There have been many such cases in history which have been such a big crime that the people involved in it got their punishment after many years. One such case is of America. An incident took place here 166 years ago, for which a person was punished after a century. The man had committed a theft (Man stole gold from sunken ship) which is related to gold worth billions of rupees and the story of this theft seems completely filmy!

Thomas ‘Tommy’ Gregory Thompson, 70, is in prison for a crime related to an incident that happened 150 years ago, reports the Unilad website. The person carried out a theft in which gold worth billions was involved, not lakhs of crores. Let us tell you what is the whole matter. In fact, in the year 1857, a ship named SS Central America sunken ship sank some distance off the coast of South Carolina due to a severe storm.

This ship was sunk in 1857, it had gold worth billions. (Photo: Twitter/@FossilLocator)

The incident happened 100 years ago
People knew that there was treasure in the ship that she was carrying. After 100 years, in 1988, Research Scientist Thomas intended to extract that treasure. He mobilized 171 people and companies and offered them to fund his research project and treasure hunt. He raised a fund of Rs 100 crore from everyone as funding and with that money made an underwater robot named Nemo and a ship named Arctic Discoverer. On 11 September 1988, he got that treasure. But till the year 2003, he did not have the legal right to take the treasure. However, this is not the reason due to which he had to stay in jail.

The person is in jail since 2016
It so happened that Thomas cheated all the investors who had invested money in his work. He sold most of the gold coins and bars to a marketing group in the year 2000 for Rs 400 crore. After that the investors filed a case against him and he absconded from the year 2012 itself. When he did not attend a hearing, a civil contempt warrant was issued against him and in the year 2013, a criminal contempt warrant was issued. He kept hiding from the police for 2 years but in 2015 the police caught him. First he was sentenced to 2 years for not attending the hearing. But then, his sentence was increased because he did not tell where the coins which he had not sold were. About 500 coins were missing, whose value ranged from Rs 16 to Rs 32 crore. He had assured to give all the coins in November 2018 but later he said that he does not have them. Since then, a fine of Rs 80 thousand was imposed on him every day and till now it has increased to Rs 16 crore. In the 2020 hearing, it was proved that the person has short term memory loss. He flatly denied that he knew nothing about gold. He is still in jail.

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